My old bacon is back

Jury member John came to the office early this morning.

His work in recent months has been all about selecting manuscripts for the Guli Gold Award.

The selection scope of the Guli Gold Award is the newly created works between the last selection and this selection.

Either published or unpublished.

If it is published, there will naturally be word-of-mouth in the market to speak for it.

This part of the works is actually relatively easy to select.

However, for unpublished works, the judges need to personally read each work and then screen them.

John is responsible for unpublished works.

There are 23 of them in total.

Everyone will read all the manuscripts.

Then select the works to enter the next stage.

Nowadays.

John clicked on the mailbox as usual.

"It's such a vulgar name again, I don't even have the desire to click on it!"

"There are too many things that want to be popular at the Guli Gold Award! I must guard this level well!"

"What kind of bad sentences are these?"

"I'm afraid it wasn't something written by people in the 30s?"

While flipping through the manuscript, John complained in his heart.

It's a bit tiresome for him to do.

Mainly because of the huge workload.

All cats and dogs want to contribute to the Guli Gold Award.

Do you really think this award is Chinese cabbage?

John made himself a cup of coffee and rubbed his temples.

Then go ahead and open the email.

Because there are indeed quite a lot of emails accumulated, so what he reads at this moment are all emails delivered many days ago.

Soon, he clicked on the email from the Foreign Language Publishing House.

Many authors hand over their works through publishing houses.

In this way, there is a layer of guarantee, so that reviewers like John know that this work has been read by people from the publishing house.

It was because the other party thought it was not bad, so they chose to vote for the Guli Gold Award.

So when he sees the manuscript of the publishing house, John will give priority to reading it.

"Outsider? The title of the book is interesting." John took a sip of his coffee.

Foreign Languages ​​Publishing House briefly introduced Qi Yuan, the author of this book, in the email.

"This book is written by Qi Yuan, the best-selling novelist in China. He is a very imaginative man. His works have also been published in our country, such as "Sherlock Holmes" and "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" ..."

After reading the title of the book, John thought deeply. He had read the book "Sherlock Holmes".

I know it is a work from a Chinese writer.

But it is limited to know.

If it wasn't for today, he wouldn't even know Qi Yuan's name!

"This writer's work should be worth reading, right?" John clicked in curiously.

Looking at it, I saw the get off work directly.

Colleagues were getting ready to leave work one after another. When they came over and saw John staring at the computer intently, they asked curiously: "John, are you off work? The manuscripts can never be finished! Let me see how many times you have been reviewed. mail?"

"Not bad, so much faster than me?"

"No, why did you read so many manuscripts today?"

"Is this book so good?"

"This email, I guess I will review this book tomorrow!"

Several colleagues were chirping beside John.

John took a deep breath, looked at everyone and said, "Guys, I seem to have reviewed a work for the Guli Gold Award!"

Everyone looked at him in disbelief, thinking he was joking.

"You kid, don't be joking! There are so many Guli Gold Awards, 90% of the works are officially released before the selection!"

"That's right! Although we are reviewing these submitted works that have not been officially published. But to be honest, I don't think the Guli Gold Award will be published in these books!"

"Let me take a look at the title of this book, "The Outsider"? Is it a book written by a Chinese?"

"The name Qi Yuan seems familiar to me, doesn't it?"

"The biggest award winner this year is Mohammed's "The Sun"! The current cumulative sales of this novel have exceeded 3000 million copies!"

John stood up and said, "Really! The content of this book is absolutely beyond your expectations! If any of you are free to go back tonight, please open your mailbox and read this book! I saw this book a second later. This book is your loss!"

The review method of Guli Gold Award for unpublished works is cross review.

That is to say, more than 20 people, and everyone has to read these works.

If you feel good, push it to the organizing committee above.

In this way, it is possible to prevent the occurrence of hidden gems to the greatest extent.

Hearing what John said, most of the auditors laughed it off.

But there are also two people who think that there is nothing to do at night anyway, so let's read this "The Outsider"!

As a result, the next day.